Despite much digging, Faultline failed to find an anecdote for an operator concerned about the fair contribution/fair share debate at IBC 2023. On the one hand, it confirms our most cynical suspicions about the validity of their complaints, and on the other, suggests that the vendor community is well-placed to provide bandwidth saving tools if push comes to shove. Still, CDN-centric announcements were thin on the ground at the Amsterdam trade show. The general industry consensus is that the pure-play public CDNs, the likes of Akamai and Fastly, are well on their way to expanding out of that core market – and into value-add services. This, in time, should leave a void for smaller vendors to fill, with operators increasingly…